Malaria: GM mosquito offers hope

London - Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosquitoes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh approach to fighting and eventually eradicating malaria. Researchers from Imperial College London...

"For the very first time, we have been able to inhibit the production of female offspring in the laboratory and this provides a new means to eliminate the disease,"

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Biologists say they have devised a new weapon against malaria by genetically engineering mosquitoes which produce mostly male offspring, eventually leading to a population wipe-out. The sex selection technique produces a generation of mosquitoes which is 95% male, as opposed to 50% in normal populations, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. So few females are...

London, June 11 (IANS) In a pioneering work towards eradicating malaria, scientists have modified mosquitoes to produce sperm that will only create males. The new genetic method distorts the sex ratio of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes - the main transmitters of the malaria parasite - so that the female mosquitoes that bite and pass the disease to humans are no longer produced....

Mosquitoes that only gives birth to male off springs are the new weapon in the global fight against malaria. British scientists announced on Tuesday that in what will be a massive boost against the world's deadliest vector borne disease, they have successfully wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the lab. Scientists modified mosquitoes to produce sperm that only create...

A new way of creating genetically modified insects could soon wipe out many mosquito-borne diseases like malaria but it could also unleash potentially devastating unintended consequences, say scientists. Researchers have devised a method of bypassing a fundamental barrier to the rapid spread of genes within a population. They believe that it could be used to spread...

Scientists have hailed the genetic modification of mosquitoes that could crash the insect’s populations as a “quantum leap' that will make a substantial and important contribution to eradicating malaria. Previous efforts to tackle the disease, that kills more than 1 million people each year — most of whom are African children — have included bed nets to protect people and...

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

published:03 Jan 2013

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

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In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven\'t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitoes yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution: genetically engineering male mosquitoes to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease-carrying species.
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Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

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In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven\'t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitoes yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution: genetically engineering male mosquitoes to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease-carrying species.
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Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida

published:26 Jan 2015

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida

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Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if authorities grant permission to proceed with an experiment that aims to fight against Dengue and chikungunya, which are primarily spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, according to a report in the Sun Sentinel.
British biotech firm Oxitec genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by breeding them with fragments of genes from the herpes simplex virus, E. coli bacteria, coral and cabbage. The synthetic DNA does not kill the mosquitoes or pose a threat to other organisms, but it kills mosquito larvae.
Genetically modified male mosquitoes are released to mate with wild female mosquitoes whose offspring would die, eventually reducing the overall mosquito population.
In a 2012 experiment in the Cayman Islands, 3.3 million genetically modified mosquitoes were released and reduced the wild mosquito population by 96 percent in six months.
The experiment faces strong local opposition from those worried about the unintended effects genetically modified mosquitoes would have on local wildlife. More than 130,000 people have signed a Change.org petition against the experiment.
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Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida

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Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if authorities grant permission to proceed with an experiment that aims to fight against Dengue and chikungunya, which are primarily spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, according to a report in the Sun Sentinel.
British biotech firm Oxitec genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by breeding them with fragments of genes from the herpes simplex virus, E. coli bacteria, coral and cabbage. The synthetic DNA does not kill the mosquitoes or pose a threat to other organisms, but it kills mosquito larvae.
Genetically modified male mosquitoes are released to mate with wild female mosquitoes whose offspring would die, eventually reducing the overall mosquito population.
In a 2012 experiment in the Cayman Islands, 3.3 million genetically modified mosquitoes were released and reduced the wild mosquito population by 96 percent in six months.
The experiment faces strong local opposition from those worried about the unintended effects genetically modified mosquitoes would have on local wildlife. More than 130,000 people have signed a Change.org petition against the experiment.
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Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc

published:27 Jan 2015

Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc

Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc

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The Food and Drug Administration is considering the release of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida keys. Part of an experiment by British scientists, the GMO insects would be bred to include segments of DNA from E. coli bacteria and other organisms, in the hopes that any eventual wild offspring will die, reducing the overall population. Needless to say, environmental activists and some scientists have raised many concerns over the program and its potential impact on humans. RT’s Ameera David takes a look.
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Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc

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The Food and Drug Administration is considering the release of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida keys. Part of an experiment by British scientists, the GMO insects would be bred to include segments of DNA from E. coli bacteria and other organisms, in the hopes that any eventual wild offspring will die, reducing the overall population. Needless to say, environmental activists and some scientists have raised many concerns over the program and its potential impact on humans. RT’s Ameera David takes a look.
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Look out GMO Mosquitoes To Be Let Loose in America

published:17 Feb 2015

Look out GMO Mosquitoes To Be Let Loose in America

Look out GMO Mosquitoes To Be Let Loose in America

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Alexis Baden Mayer, Organic Consumers Association joins Thom Hartmann. A British company plans to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Why is the company.
Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely p.
Biologists say they have devised a new weapon against malaria by genetically engineering mosquitoes to produce mostly male offspring, with the hope of eventu....

Look out GMO Mosquitoes To Be Let Loose in America

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Alexis Baden Mayer, Organic Consumers Association joins Thom Hartmann. A British company plans to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Why is the company.
Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely p.
Biologists say they have devised a new weapon against malaria by genetically engineering mosquitoes to produce mostly male offspring, with the hope of eventu....

In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven\'t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitoes yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution: genetically engineering male mosquitoes to make them sterile, and releasing

Scientists believe a new strain of mosquito that produces almost entirely male offspring could turn the tables in the fight against malaria.
In laboratory tests, 95% of eggs laid by the genetically-modified anopheles gambiae mosquito hatched into males.
Introducing them to normal mosquitoes led to

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if authorities grant permission to proceed with an experiment that aims to fight against Dengue and chikungunya, which are primarily spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, according to a report in the Sun Sentinel.
Briti

The Food and Drug Administration is considering the release of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida keys. Part of an experiment by British scientists, the GMO insects would be bred to include segments of DNA from E. coli bacteria and other organisms, in the hopes that any eve

Alexis Baden Mayer, Organic Consumers Association joins Thom Hartmann. A British company plans to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Why is the company.
Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win

Alexis Baden Mayer, Organic Consumers Association joins Thom Hartmann. A British company plans to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Why is the company doing this - and could genetically modified mosquitoes be an even bigger nuisance than regular ones?

Officials in the Florida Keys are considering using genetically modified mosquitoes to curb the threat of the tropical disease, Dengue fever. The lab-grown mosquitoes have been used in Brazil and the Cayman Islands to reduce the local mosquito populations, but many Keys residents are wary of allowin

Mosquitoes are considered one of the deadliest animals on earth with their ability to spread diseases far and wide but why haven’t we already eradicated these killer bugs?
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Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval from the FDA to use the insects as a drug against two viral diseases. British biotech company Oxitec will be conducting the experiment in order to combat dengue fever and chikungunya

Originally published on January 15, 2014
Thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in Panama in an attempt to stop the spread of the dengue virus.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the primary vector of dengue. For the project, scientists will genetically alter male mosquitos by pu

A British company wants to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in a Florida neighborhood. They say this will stop the spread of two deadly diseases, but residents are skeptical. The mutant bugs would target a specific species of mosquito that is so troublesome, the Florida Keys Mosqu

Scientists in Sao Paulo in Brazil have released up to 100,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in an attempt to tackle an epidemic of Dengue Fever.
Over 8000 cases have been recorded this year in the city.
The initiative works by injecting male mosquitoes with a modified gene.
When the males mat

Five species of Plasmodium can infect and be transmitted by humans. Severe disease is largely caused by P. falciparum while the disease caused by P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae is generally a milder form that is rarely fatal. The zoonotic species P. knowlesi, prevalent in Southeast Asia, causes malaria in macaques but can also cause severe infections in humans. Malaria is prevalent in tropical regions because of the significant amounts of rainfall, consistently high temperatures and high humidity, along with stagnant waters in which mosquito larvae readily mature, provide them with the environment they need for continuous breeding. Disease transmission can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites by distribution of mosquito nets and insect repellents, or with mosquito-control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water.